In Los Angeles' Biltmore Bowl, an enormous modern room shaped like a football sliced in half, 900 members and guests of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week sat down to that institution's annual banquet.
The production end of the cinema industry is in some respects like a large and highly eccentric school. The atmosphere of the Academy Banquet suggests that of a Commencement. It concluded, as usual, last week with the awarding of prizes, honorable mentions and special awards for every branch of excellence in the cinema industry, except possibly that of Best Dressed Actress or...
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